Public Law 75–494

That the Act of May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 468), for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service and in certain positions in the legislative branch of the Government, is hereby amended to include all other employees in the legislative branch and all officers and employees of any of the courts of the United States who are not entitled to the benefits of any other retirement Act whose tenure of employment is not intermittent nor of uncertain duration.

Sec. 2.

The provisions of such Act of May 29, 1930, shall not be applicable to any employee in the legislative branch who is brought within its scope by section 1 of this Act until such employee gives notice in writing to the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, and shall not be applicable to any officer or employee of any court of the United States who is brought within its scope by section 1 of this Act until such officer or employee gives notice in writing to the disbursing officer by whom the salary of such officer or employee is paid that he or she desires to come under the provisions of such Act of May 29, 1930. Such notice must be given, in the case of any such

Time limitation.

employee in the service on the effective date of this Act, within six months from such effective date, and in the case of any such employee entering the service after the effective date of this Act, within six months from the date of such entrance: Provided, That

Proviso.

Employees paid by Senate disbursing officer; acceptance and when effective.

in the case of any such employee whose salary or any part thereof is paid by the disbursing officer of the Senate such notice may be given at any time, and such employee shall come under the provisions of such Act of May 29, 1930, at the beginning of the sixth month after the giving of such notice.

No such employee whose salary or any part thereof is paid by

Deposit, salary deduction, etc., contingent upon service period.

the disbursing officer of the Senate shall make any deposit required by section 9, or any redeposit required by subsection (b) of section

46 Stat. 475, 476.

12, of such Act of May 29, 1930, and there shall not be deducted and withheld from the basic salary, pay, or compensation of any such employee the sum required to be deducted and withheld by section 10 of such Act of May 29, 1930, unless and until such employee shall have completed fifteen years of service: Provided, That before any

Provisos.

Deposits.

such employee may derive any of the benefits provided by such Act of May 29, 1930, he shall be required to deposit an amount equal to the following sums: (1) The sum which would have been deducted and withheld from his basic salary, pay, or compensation hut for the foregoing provisions of this paragraph, together with interest on such sum computed at the rate of 4 per centum per annum compounded on June 30 of each fiscal year; (2) any sum required to be deposited under the provisions of section 9 of such Act of May 29, 1930; and (3) any sum required to be redeposited under the provisions of subsection (b) of section 12 of such Act of May 29, 1930: Provided further, That should any such employee who shall have

Total disability after 5 years’ service.

served for a total period of not less than five years become totally disabled for useful and efficient service, within the meaning of section 6 of such Act of May 29, 1930, before completing fifteen years of service, he shall be entitled to the benefits provided by such section 6, upon deposit of the amount required to be deposited under the preceding proviso.

Sec. 3.

The provisions of section 2 of such Act of May 29, 1930,

Automatic separation.

Exemption from designated provisions.

46 Stat. 469; 47 Stat. 404.

and of section 204 of the Economy Act of June 30, 1932, and any Executive orders pursuant thereto, relating to automatic separation, shall not apply to any officer or employee to whom the provisions of such Act are extended by this Act, nor hereafter to employees of the office of the Architect of the Capitol.

Sec. 4.

The term “employee in the legislative branch” where used

“Employee in the legislative branch” construed.

in this Act shall also include (a) officers elected by the Senate or House of Representatives who are not members of either body, (b) the legislative counsel of the Senate and the legislative counsel of the House and the employees in their respective offices, (c) the Capitol Police force, (d) the employees of the Joint Committee on Printing and the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation, and (e) clerks to Members of the Senate, clerks to Members of the House of Representatives, clerks and employees to the several committees of the House and Senate, and all other employees.

Sec. 5.

In computing annuitable service, all employment prior to

Computing annuitable service.

Employment as clerk to Representative, etc., prior to July 1, 1919, recognized in.

July 1, 1919, as clerk to a Representative, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner in his representative capacity shall be recognized as employment in the legislative branch if and when such employment can be shown by records or secondary evidence, and in the case of applications heretofore awarded or denied such cases shall be imme-diately reopened and readjudicated on the above basis from the date of separation, this provision to become effective from the date of the approval of this Act.

Sec. 6.

This Act shall take effect on October 1, 1937.